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Originally Posted by Shiraz
Yes, it is very worrying that such random violence seems to be the norm. I hope that the real risk to the grandkids is actually fairly small, but it is certainly not zero. There is also an effect on society - why should kids have to be taught a procedure that will maximise their chances of staying alive if they are pulled over in a car by police - or why must they have lockdown drills in their school just in case some armed loony decides to use his AK47 for the designed purpose - and how does having senior students carrying loaded weapons improve campus safety?. As Clive pointed out, American society is quite brutish at the core and that makes for a dangerous cocktail when there is unfettered access to deadly weapons - but there is a large and powerful lobby that just doesn't give a stuff about that.
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It creates a climate of fear, that people feel the need to protect themselves from - with guns. Every time a massacre happens, gun sales go up. The solution is the problem, and the effect is the cause.